التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
SPECTACULAR PROVOCATION: THE SPECTATORS AS IMPLICATED SUBJECTS IN "I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS". |
| المؤلفون: |
Popa, Diana |
| المصدر: |
Slavic & East European Journal; Fall2023, Vol. 67 Issue 3, p380-397, 18p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
WORLD War II, ODESSA massacre, Ukraine, 1941, MASSACRES in motion pictures |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
ROMANIA |
| Reviews & Products: |
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History As Barbarians (Film) |
| مستخلص: |
In 2004, Romania officially recognized the country's role in and responsibility for the Holocaust. Despite this, there is a tension between the official and the popular memory of World War II and the Holocaust. In the absence of public debates on the memory of the Holocaust in Romania, "Îmi este indiferent daca în istorie vom intra ca barbari" / "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (Radu Jude, 2018) (hereafter "Barbarians") represents an attempt to engage with the memory of World War II and the Holocaust in a popular format, a fiction film with the potential to engage a wider audience than an official report or an academic paper. The film revolves around a shameful historical event, the massacre of Jews at Odessa in 1941 by the Romanian army. By analyzing significant sequences from the film, I show how the spectator as "implicated subject" (Rothberg 2019) is evoked by the film's Brechtian distanciation (Verfremdung) techniques such as direct address, the unveiling of the cinematic apparatus and, most importantly, the re-enactment-within-film. I argue that "Barbarians" emphasizes the characters' position as "latecomers to histories of perpetration" and seeks to illuminate what Rothberg calls "diachronic implication" by foregrounding the privileged role of the spectator through the re-enactment, but also, much earlier, through direct address. An analysis of the spectators as implicated subjects reveals how "Barbarians" uses spectacle subversively in order to express dissent from and / or complicity with historical master narratives about national identity, especially those espoused through commemorative events celebrating Romania's national day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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